Core Collective Architects

Core Collective Architects We are award-winning architects and makers, working with craftspeople to create spaces and objects that enrich the everyday.

Our latest trauma-informed design collaboration with focused on upgrades to their communal spaces including activities ...
30/04/2026

Our latest trauma-informed design collaboration with focused on upgrades to their communal spaces including activities and therapy spaces, recreation room, and an outdoor play area.
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The design is informed by our ongoing research in partnership with the School of Architecture & Design at UTAS and Sam Donnelly from UTS.
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Thank you to everyone who has generously given their time and expertise to support of this project.
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In addition to those listed below, we gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the staff, women and children living at the Shelter. The project was supported by the Australian Government (Treasury’s Safe Places Emergency Accommodation Program), Homes Tasmania, Tasmanian Community Fund, Variety Tasmania and Hobart Airport.  

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We are thrilled to share that Core Collective Partner, Dr Ceridwen Owen is on the jury panel for the 2026 ArchitectureAu...
17/02/2026

We are thrilled to share that Core Collective Partner, Dr Ceridwen Owen is on the jury panel for the 2026 ArchitectureAu Award for Social Impact - Entries now open!

This program invites entries that demonstrate real benefit to communities and underrepresented groups. With a jury comprising leaders in architecture, research and social policy, the program celebrates work that centres lived experience and social value over spectacle.

Projects may relate to social cohesion, racial justice, inclusive housing, accessibility, equity, social sustainability or other areas where design can make a difference to society. This accolade is the only national recognition of this type of work within Australia.

The Jury:
Andrew Nimmo
Ceridwen Owen
Sara Lynn Rees
Jess Scully
Katelin Butler

Jury convenor:
Rory Hyde

The ArchitectureAu Award for Social Impact is organised by Architecture Media, publisher of , and presented in partnership with the Melbourne School of Design .

Enter now!

Thanks to all our collaborators and clients - so many fun times in 2025! Wishing everyone a joyful and safe festive seas...
24/12/2025

Thanks to all our collaborators and clients - so many fun times in 2025! Wishing everyone a joyful and safe festive season and a brilliant new year.

Construction progress at Jubilee Gardens house and studio, in the foothills of Kunanyi. This is a personal project of CC...
14/12/2025

Construction progress at Jubilee Gardens house and studio, in the foothills of Kunanyi.

This is a personal project of CCA Director, Ryan and his partner Minky, who fell in love with the horticultural paradise, Jubilee Gardens, which was a private nursery established 40 years ago by Joy Stones and Ted Cutlan. The robust and elegant new house and studio are designed to sensitively nestle in amongst the diverse and rare plant species established in the garden, taking in views of the bushland and mountain.

The house and studio are intentionally simple - a background to the garden’s seasonal blooms, constructed from expanded clay insulated masonry with gravel ballast roofs. The internal spaces are cosy and peaceful, featuring exposed GLT beams by NextTimber, basalt flooring with hydronic underfloor heating, and custom brass windows and doors designed by Ryan and fabricated by .

On the lands of the Muwinina people of Nipaluna, Lutruwita.
Photos by .gibson.photo

Now 4 years old, The Rox is cited by Hobart City, the Tasmanian Plannjng Scheme and Heritage Tas as an exemplary Hobart ...
27/08/2025

Now 4 years old, The Rox is cited by Hobart City, the Tasmanian Plannjng Scheme and Heritage Tas as an exemplary Hobart apartment building for its sensitivity to its heritage context and contribution to the public realm with its open forecourt and laneway. We are proud of this contribution to inner city living in Hobart.

👉 15 Apartments
👉 2 ground floor commercial spaces
👉 Only 5 car spaces
👉 Repurposed existing structure
👉 Carbon neutral Tasmanian made bricks
👉 Reduced embodied energy
👉 Debut of Tasmanian female developer, Mary Brownell
👉 Female lead architect, Emily Taylor
👉 Recovery & restoration of heritage building at rear (cited case-study by Heritage Tas)
👉 Catalyst for Mid-Town activation

Built by Vos Constructions
Photographs by .gibson.photo and

After 10 years as a valuable team member and Associate, Emily Taylor has joined Core Collective founders Ceridwen and Ry...
05/08/2025

After 10 years as a valuable team member and Associate, Emily Taylor has joined Core Collective founders Ceridwen and Ryan as a Partner in practice.

Emily was awarded the Emerging Architect Prize in 2021 and the National Dulux Study Tour in 2012, has had a guiding hand in a number of Core Collective’s award winning projects since 2015 and continues to be instrumental in the evolution of Core Collective as a client-focussed design practice. Most recently, Emily designed and managed the wonderful King Island Community Hub which was officially opened on the 17th July 2025. Emily is now taking a key role as Project Architect for our ongoing collaboration with to deliver specialist disability accommodation across Tasmania.

Emily’s personal passion for socially & environmentally responsible, affordable housing has driven grass-roots projects including the replicable housing for women & children facing homelessness, and her ongoing research and advocacy for cooperative housing in Tasmania.

Emily is highly valued by clients and collaborators for her team-building skills and sensitive design thinking. She consistently keeps client, consultant and building teams in the picture in a way that achieves the best possible outcome for any project. Most of all, Emily is a pleasure to work with so Ceridwen and Ryan are very proud to formally welcome Emily into a practice leadership and co-owner role.
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Valuable insights from the resident at Elsie house, after seven months of living there with her two children after bein...
02/05/2025

Valuable insights from the resident at Elsie house, after seven months of living there with her two children after being in crisis accommodation.

Her reflections on daily life in Elsie demonstrate the carefully considered, trauma-informed design at work.

This post-occupancy review was undertaken by Dr Ceridwen Owen (UTAS) and Samantha Donnelly (UTS) in December 2024.

Our sincere gratitude to the resident of Elsie who generously offered her insights and experience with the hope that it will help inform future housing solutions for women and children facing homelessness after escaping domestic violence.

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Photography remaining images: .gibson.photo

Our recently completed Venus Bay Shed captured beautifully by .gibson.photo Nestled within the rugged coastal landscape ...
30/03/2025

Our recently completed Venus Bay Shed captured beautifully by .gibson.photo

Nestled within the rugged coastal landscape of South Gippsland, the Venus Bay Shed is a thoughtfully-designed creative workspace, recently completed alongside the original Venus Bay House (2006). Positioned on the windswept sand dunes, this new additional structure provides a dedicated space for its owners—who live and work on-site—to immerse themselves in their creative pursuits.

Robust in its construction, the masonry structure is clad in weathering steel and double-glazed steel-framed windows, allowing it to blend seamlessly into the surrounding tea tree and coastal heath. The building’s stepped form follows the natural contours of the land, with the green roof planted with seed from locally-sourced species enhancing its integration into the fragile dune ecology. More than just a workspace, the Venus Bay Shed is a place of quiet contemplation—an adaptable and enduring structure that fosters creativity, while maintaining a deep respect for its coastal setting.

This project reflects Core Collective Architects’ commitment to designing with sensitivity to both site and function. The shed’s material palette, simplicity of form, and strong connection to the landscape ensures that it not only supports the creative endeavours of its owners, but also harmonises beautifully with the natural environment.

On the lands of the Bunurong and Gunaikurnai people.

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More project info on the website.

Isabel and Elsie: Homes Designed to Nurture Women and Children’s Wellbeing and Recovery from Homelessness, have been sho...
24/06/2024

Isabel and Elsie: Homes Designed to Nurture Women and Children’s Wellbeing and Recovery from Homelessness, have been shortlisted in the 2024 Award for Social Impact!

The esteemed national award seeks to recognise projects that promote the common good. It has been conceived to reward practice that preferences empathy over aesthetics, extending the spatial possibilities of architecture to advance the discipline and to empower its users. The award criteria focus on demonstrable social benefit and the quality and originality of the design thinking that delivered it.

Family violence is the primary reason women and children seek specialist homelessness services. The design is an exemplar of trauma-informed principles, in particular the nine principles outlined in Samantha Donnelly’s ‘Design Guide for Refuge Accommodation for Women and Children’, 2020.

The Hobart Women’s Shelter supports women from almost all Local Government Areas in Tasmania. From July 2020 – February 2024, over 4000 women and accompanying children from across Tasmania sought crisis accommodation at the Hobart Women’s Shelter. Almost 3300 women and children seeking accommodation were turned away due to a lack of space at the Hobart Women’s Shelter.

The homes provide a high degree of physical safety and psychological well-being, deliberately fostering a sense of security supporting women and children’s recovery.
The homes are designed to make living easy and affordable. The homes are kept compact, with plenty of storage and multi-purpose spaces. Each house will have net-zero annual power bills due to the passive-thermal design and solar array.










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Lee Tyers Building Surveyors
Brighton City Council
Enviro Dynamics
Gandy & Roberts
Red Sustainability
Gray Planning
Howarth Fisher & Associates
Veris
Enturalaw
Exsto Management




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